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In ven/far' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

ANDREW e. BAUM, or `KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR To JOHN A. EOLSMAN,or

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Specification of LettersPat/ent.`

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

To all whom it may' concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW Gr. BAUM, a citi# zen of the `United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson land State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1nWater-Motors ofwhlch' the following is a specification.

My invention relates to water motorsvand more especially to that class,comprising a casing havingy an inletopeningfandV an exit opening,ashaft journaled inthe casing and a wheel on the shaft provided-withperipheral buckets to successively receive the water from the inletopening,and my Objectis to produce aVv motor of this general characterprovided with means forcompounding the leverage of the water on thewheel forv the purpose of increasing'the speed and therefore the power`generated by the same.

A further object is to ,provide means for varying the diameter andtherefore the im` pelling force of the jet of water striking thebuckets. l j Y With these general objects in view the in'- ventionconsists in certain novel andV peculiar features of construction andorganization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that itmay be fully understood reference is to be had to, the accompanyingdrawing, in which- I Figure 1, represents a water motor embodying myinvention partly in side view and partlyin central vertical section.Fig. 2, is a vertical section taken on the line II-II of Fig. -1. Fig.3, is a horizontal section taken on the line III-III of Fig. 2. Fig. 4,is an enlarged detail perspective View of the deflecting cup. Fig. 5,isa detail view of the hanger plate., Fig. 6, is a centralverticalsection of a modified form of nozzle. Fig. 7, is a plan view ofthe same. 'Fig. Sis a bottom plan view of the valve for varying thediameter of the jet of water. i

In the said drawings, 1 indicatesa casing of suitable material providedby preference with a tapering bottom 2, having a drain tube 3 at itslower end.

5l indicates the hanger for the purpose of supporting the motor, thesame being secured to one edge of the casingand having notches 5 in itslower'side forV engagement with headed pins, not shown, carried by anysuitable support, such for instanceas the woodwork of a building, near afaucet.

. 6 is a shafthavi'ng its ends threaded by preference, journaled inavsleeve 7 projecting into the `casing through one wall thereof, and 9are holes in said sleeve through which oil may be introduced for thelubrication ofthe shaft.

' 10 are nuts on the inner end of the shaft forthe purpose of securingthereon near the inner end of the sleeve, the water wheel; 'said wheelvbeing of any suitable type though preferably consisting of spokes 11 anda peripheral trough 12, the trough having its outer side open and beingpartitioned by a plurality of angle plates consisting of thesubstantially radial portions 13 and the outer portions 14, the latterwhen contiguous tothe front edge' of the casing, projecting upwardly.Secured upon the opposite end of the shaft is a pulley 15 adapted to beconnected by a belt, not shown, with the washing Inachine kor othermachinery adapted to be driven by the motor.

16 indicates a nozzle of any suitable or preferred type, extendingdownward into theV casing above the buckets whose outer ,sides projectupwardly, the lower end of said nozzleterminating in a tip 17 having ajetorifice of small diameter in order that, by decreasing the diameterof the stream of Vwater supplied to the nozzle from the faucet in anysuitable manner, a pressure will be vgenerated in the nozzle which willproject the water with great force directly down upon the wheel and intothe buckets thereof as they successively assume positionsverticallybelow said nozzle, the impelling force ,of Such jet of waterbeing suiiicient to resecured'lflatly against said wall, thedownwardlyand inwardly curvedbottom 19, and the sidewalls 20 projectingupwardly from the bottom and extending by preference from the base tothe inner end of the bottom, 'the upper edges of the side walls'beingdisposed contiguous to the periphery of the wheel and conc'entricallythereof, while the bottom is preferably struck on a curve of smallerdiameter in order that water striking thereon shall be detlecteo towardthe opposite wall of the casing in substantially a horizontal line. Thecup furthermore is preferably of slightly less width than the trough ofthe wheell in order that substantially all of the water entering the cupshal be deflected therefrom into the buckets as they successively pass.

In practice the water is discharged with such force and in such quantitythat the buckets are instantly lilled and therefore supplement theimpact ofthe jet with the weight of the water in the buckets inetfecting the rotation of the wheel, which rotation being exceedinglyrapid, through the action of centrifugal force and the natural tendencyof the .vater to overflow from the buckets when they pass below thehoriz'ontall plane of their axis of motion, throws said water with greatforce into the deflecting cup andA is instantly deflected by the latteras hereinbefore explained and in substantially the direction indicatedby the contiguous arrows Fig. l, the water being` thus reprojected withgreat force into the bucket from which it was discharged in the actionabove described.

4t will be readily understood that when the wheel is heavily loaded, 2'.c'. has considerable resistance to overcome, it will naturally rotate ata slower speed than when lightlyloaded or not loaded at all, which speedbeing less than that at which the water is projected from the nozzle isalso less than that by which the water is projected from the deflectingcup. As a result the projection of the water from the latter onto thewheel cooperates with the original impact of the water, in overcoming`such resistance and enabling the wheel to perform its work smoothly andetliciently and at greater speed than is produced by depending alone onthe jet from the nozzle.

When the wheel has practically no resistance or is loaded lightly7 itsspeed will be correspondingly increased. lf desired the nozzle may bedisposed horizontally in line with the upper portion of the wheel asindicated by the arrow a and the detlector be disposed as indicated bythe dotted lines o. lV ith this arrangement the power would be augmentedmore than it is with the nozzle depending and the cup disposedvertically below the same for the reason that the defleeting cup woulddischarge, the water into the buckets in such position that they wouldremain charged for a longer period, in other words, there would be morebuckets charged with water on the descending side of the wheelthan asshown in Fig. l. The drain tube 3 is of suflicient capacity or diameterto prevent water accumulating in the bottom of the casing and possiblysubnierging;` the lover part of the wheel and introducing resistance toits movement.

To adapt the motor to operate atl variable speeds, l have provided anozzle having a plurality of jet oritices of ditl'erent diameter whichcan be used as a substitute for that already described. This secondforni ol nozzle consists of the body portion 02E having ar stem 2lprojecting laterally there/troni. The discharge end of the nozzle ispreferably enlarged as at and has a bottom QG having an Vopening' QT ofpreferably greater diam` eter than the largest ict1-oiiticc herein afterenplained.

Extending axially through the packing boX 2T on the upper end thcreo'l"`is a valveI stem 2S and secured to the lower end of said stem andresting with a, water-tight relation on the bottom 2G, is a valve Q9,having a series of openings 30, 3l, 52, and lil ol varying diameters.and each of which is adapted to register with the opening 2T in thebottom QG. A coil spring` ll presses at its opposite ends against ashoulder 35 of the nozzle and the valve 2t), so as to hold the lattersquarely against the bottom 26.

3G indi ates a disk handle on the upper end of the stem C" and providcdwith V- n t nfs shaped notches 3T, 3S, 3) and fl-0 in its periphery andcontiguous to said notches and of diminishing diameter arc holes ll asshown, so as to indicate to the operator when the toothed spring` armcarried by the nozzle is engaged with any particular notch, that the jetoritice of the valve corresponding 4to such notch, is registering withthe opening 2T in the bottom of the nozzle. rlChc operator can thus tellthe size of the iet that is being discharged onto the wheel, it beingobvious that the largest jet operates the wheel at the slowest speed. lnthe opera tion of this valve the spring catch l2 automatically engagesand releases the disk handle as will be readily understood.

From the above description it will he apparent that l have produced awater motor embodying the features oil advantage enumerated asdesirable.

Having thus described the invention what l claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

l. ln a water motor, the combination of a casing having an exitopening.y a water wheel mounted therein and provided with peripheralbuckets the periphery of the wheel projecting close to the sides of thecasing, a nozzle projecting into the casing and disposed eccentricallyof the wheel beyond the periphery of the saine, and a dclector withinthe casing below the plane of the axis ol: the wheel arranged to receivethe water discharged from the peripheral buckets and rcturn the samethereto, the periphery of the wheel projecting between the nozzle andthe deiector.

2. A water motor comprising a casing having an exit opening, a nozzlesecured in said easing, a water wheel mounted in the casing and havingits periphery projected across the end of the nozzle close to the sideof the casing, and a defeoting cup having a base portion secured to thewall of the cas- 'ingl below the plane of the axis of the wheel,

a downwardly and inwardly curved bottom depending from said baseportion, and side walls extending from the base portion to the peripheryof the wheel and having their 15 ANDREW G. BAUM. Witnesses:

W. R. HAMPDEM G. Y. THORPE.

